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Old 05-04-2012, 12:07 PM   #92
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It's over your line, that's fair. It's not over my line or the Captain's. Where is the line?
Lines like this are subjective, and ultimately the closer you get to a line the harder it is to determine if something is on one side or another.

But the line is:

"If a message can be reasonably interpreted by a person as negative towards another person's beliefs..."

Reasonable people in this thread interpret as negative towards another person's beliefs, as did the people making the decision. I don't see how it isn't reasonable to interpret it that way.

I think adding "My" to the front is useful:

"My life is wasted without Jesus", clearly talking about one's own life
"Life is wasted without Jesus", what is being wasted? Life. All life because there's no qualifier, saying it means any subset of life without a qualifier is adding meaning where none is written. So all life without Jesus, meaning all life that isn't a Christian life (because life with Jesus is by definition Christian).

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It also says anything that may offend someone's culture or lifestyle. Can't that be interpreted as just about anything?
Sure. It's a school, if they want to wear shirts that belittle others they can do it after school.

This is why I like uniforms.
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